NATIONAL BRIEFING | MIDWEST; Illinois: $156 Million Award Thrown Out

By AP

Published: December 29, 2007

A federal appeals court overturned a $156 million award against three Islamic charities based in the United States for involvement in the terrorism death of an American teenager in the West Bank more than a decade ago. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said the judge in the case had failed to require the parents of the teenager, David Boim, 17, to properly show a link between his death and the fund-raising activities of the charities. Because of that error, the court sent the case back for a possible new trial. David Boim, a yeshiva student, was shot to death in 1996 while waiting with other students at a bus stop in Beit El, on the West Bank. All the defendants denied financing terrorism.